Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, 60 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA.
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2010 Apr 20;107(16):7179-83. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0914905107. Epub 2010 Apr 19.
I review the contribution of Chandra X-ray Observatory to studies of dark energy. There are two broad classes of observable effects of dark energy: evolution of the expansion rate of the Universe, and slow down in the rate of growth of cosmic structures. Chandra has detected and measured both of these effects through observations of galaxy clusters. A combination of the Chandra results with other cosmological datasets leads to 5% constraints on the dark energy equation-of-state parameter, and limits possible deviations of gravity on large scales from general relativity.
我回顾了钱德拉 X 射线观测站对暗能量研究的贡献。暗能量有两种主要的可观测效应:宇宙膨胀率的演化,以及宇宙结构增长率的减缓。钱德拉通过对星系团的观测探测并测量了这两种效应。钱德拉的结果与其他宇宙学数据集的结合,对暗能量状态方程参数的限制达到了 5%,并限制了大尺度上引力对广义相对论的可能偏离。